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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - dvboy - 15-08-2023

(15-08-2023, 02:38 AM)RhysJR Wrote:  Good to see Sky Sports will be showing the US Open tennis across plenty of their channels.
Interesting to see that the Monday Night Football studio was announced to be the base of Sky's US Open covergae as well. Prime Video, when they could, always anchored on site in New York. I didn't see any of their original run of broadcasting it, but were Sky onsite in New York previously?

https://twitter.com/tennisontelly/status/1690818229378179072?s=20 

Yes, they were on site previously and I have been told there will be a mixture of studio and on-site presentation from Sky.

Listing show main coverage on Sky Sports Arena (probably getting a temporary rebrand) from 15:30 daily (15:00 on Monday 28 August, day 1), and additional coverage on Sky Sports Action. Presumably these correlate to the two main show courts for the majority of time. There will be re-runs of the night session on Sky Sports Arena during the day, and a half-hour round-up of the previous day at 15:00.

As well as expected Main Event simulcasts, there is a Sky Showcase simulcast of Sky Sports Arena on Tuesday 29 August, and there will be Sky Sports Mix simulcasts on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 September.

Sky Sports Action is breaking away for Super League on Thursday 31 August, I'm surprised they're not putting that on Sky Sports Mix instead, or putting the tennis there that evening.


Meanwhile Prime Video are winding down their coverage slowly - no studio presentation for Canada last week or Cincinnati this week, which they would normally do at least the latter parts of. Instead, we have commentators in vision at the start of the day. They are relying more on world feed commentary too, especially the night matches, and ending their featured main coverage stream before the night matches start, when normally they'd continue into them. Expect they'll only have presentation now at the two tour finals.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 17-08-2023

Some of the technical details of the ITN host broadcast operation for the World Athletics Championship. Will be interesting to see how different the coverage of the marathons will be without a helicopter being used, the first major marathon coverage not to do so.

https://www.itn.co.uk/media-centre/world-athletics-productions-innovates-further-bring-audiences-even-closer-athletes-world-athletics 

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Eurosport have announced their coverage plans, with Radzi Chinyanganya hosting onsite in Budapest (I think) rather than from what was The Cube in London.

https://media.discoverysports.com/post/eurosport-and-discovery-to-deliver-extensive-coverage-of-world-a 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 17-08-2023

I really don't get the point in the BBC bringing in Gabby Logan given it's unlikely she can host before Wednesday night, especially given Janette hosted last year. Given moving forward Women's Football is going to get the full tournament treatment, and they fall in World Athletics Championships years, it makes sense to have Janette host the athletics championships, even if Gabby still does the Olympics next year.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - excel99 - 17-08-2023

The overlap might not be an issue every time, The 2025 World Athletics Championships is in September for example.

In addition, Eugene last year was unusually lower profile than normal, with the finals being overnight UK time and it being eclipsed from a UK perspective by a home Commonwealth Games. Then this time around it's primetime BBC1

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Newshound47 - 17-08-2023

I honestly never knew till today that some PL matches are shown Free to Air in America. What other countries get free to Air PL matches.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - RhysJR - 17-08-2023

Past and present by BBC Scotland's mic muffs...
Two BBC logos for the price of one

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Brekkie - 18-08-2023

Michael Johnson is on site in Budapest so looks like presentation will be this year - usually has been for European based championships but got so used to everything coming from Salford I just thought it was a given they'd be studio based. I guess clashing with the football perhaps forces the decision.

https://twitter.com/MJGold/status/1692500022913302628 

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Scratch_Perry - 18-08-2023

This will be Michael Johnson's 23rd year as part of the BBC's athletics team and it just goes to show the value of having a non-native sports commentator or pundit. With Richie Benaud (RIP), Shane Warne (ditto) and Michael Holding no longer around on the cricket for example, only John McEnroe remains as a top high-profile overseas pundit or commentator appearing annually on a sporting event(s) such as Wimbledon. Treasure them while you can.

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - Jon - 18-08-2023

Wasn’t Michael Johnson on-site in the US last year?

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RE: The Sport Thread - For stuff not worthy of a thread of its own - excel99 - 18-08-2023

Yes, 'job swapped' with Colin Jackson IIRC. Given the location last year, made perfect sense

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